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Satellite promising much to agriculture

India on Wednesday successfully launched its latest remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-2A, which would be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories generation

Satellite promising  much to agriculture

Big leap: Indian Space Research Organisation’s PSLV-C36 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Wednesday. PTI



India on Wednesday successfully launched its latest remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-2A, which would be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories generation


ISRO’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C36 blasted off at 10.25 am from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and injected the satellite into orbit 


Once brought to its operational configuration, the satellite will begin to provide imagery from its three cameras and the data will be useful for agricultural applications


1,235-kg is the weight of  RESOURCESAT-2A

17 min 5 sec time it took to get into orbit

 

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